Summarizing

By: Arezo Athar Sultani

 What is summarizing?
Summarizing is to make a short statement giving only the main
information and not the details of a plan, event, report or etc.
How to summarize?(steps)

1. Select a short passage

2. Read the passage carefully t po fully understand it
3. Take notes of the main ideas, importing supporting points, key words and term
4. Use only your notes to explain the main idea and then support it with your own
arguments.
5. Read and adjust the main source and if there was some remaining key parts add them
6. Add in check citation and choose your formatting style.
 Strategies for summarizing
• Some body wanted but so then
If you want to summarize stories it’s the best strategy. In this strategy each word represent a
question.
Somebody: who is the story about?
Wanted: what does the main character want?
But: identify a problem that the main character encounterd
So: how those the main character solve the problem?
Then: tell how the story end
• SAAC Method
This method is an effective method for summarizing any kind of text like stories, speeches
or articles.

SAAC is the acronym for ‘ state, assign, action and complete ’’ each of these acronyms
refers to a specific elements that should be included in the summary.
Each of the acronyms refers to elements that should be include in the summary.
State: name of the article, book, or story
Assign: the name of the author
Action: what the author is doing
Complete: complete the summary with key words and important details.
• 5 W’s, 1H
It states on six questions:

Who is the story about?

What did they do?
When did the action take place?
Where did the story happen?
Why did the main character do what he\she did?
How did the main character do he\she did?
• First then finally
Summarize events in chronological order.
First: main character\action
Then: why did it take place?
Finally: result
 What is the difference between paraphrasing
and summarizing?
• A paraphrase is about the same length as the original source, while a
summary is much shorter when you summarize. You must be careful not
to copy the exact wording of the original source.

• A good summary is short and to the point.

Questions?